A Devil in Scotland by Suzanne Enoch

Author:Suzanne Enoch [Enoch, Suzanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2018-01-30T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Ye’re certain of this?” Callum asked, knocking on the roof of the coach.

“I’m certain,” Rebecca answered, straightening her spine. “And stop asking me as if you think I’ll turn tail and flee.”

A delicious grin danced across his mouth. “I reckon I know ye better than that. But it did take three tries to get ye into that fine dress.”

She glanced down at the soft gray and black muslin. “Because you kept taking it off me.”

“Aye, and I’d do it again if the ride was longer.”

With a deep breath that trembled a little at the end, she pushed open the coach’s door herself when they rolled to a halt. If not for the nerves beating like bats in her chest, she would almost have thought herself still dreaming. Last night—and this morning—had been … a revelation. An exhausting, eye-opening, shivery revelation.

Once the driver flipped down the steps she emerged, fixing her black bonnet against the stiff morning breeze. How could the world feel so different today? The only circumstance that had truly altered was her own knowledge. And now she’d agreed to help prove that the men on whom she’d most closely relied for the past horrid year were very likely the ones who’d put her in that situation in the first place.

All that left her thoughts again as Callum stepped to the ground. Two of her circumstances had altered since yesterday. And this one was … magnificent. He rolled his shoulders as if the coach had been too small to contain him, then offered his arm. Across the street Lord and Lady Hannick emerged from a shop, both of them stopping to ogle. Well, good. They wanted witnesses.

“Is that Molly MacKenzie?” Callum muttered.

Wrapping her hand around his forearm, she nodded. “Countess Hannick, now.” A thought occurred to her, and she hid an abrupt frown. “Did you know her?”

“I recall feathers, but that could be one of several things,” he returned. “I’m a wee bit hazy about most of that time.”

It was very likely he was lying, but she appreciated that he’d gone to the trouble of doing so. “Mm-hm.”

He lifted an eyebrow. “I cannae change who I was a decade ago. Believe me, I’ve wished otherwise. But I’m nae that pup any longer. Now lead the way. My knees are getting cold.”

She started off in the direction of Edgley House. The coach might have driven them right up to the front door, but she understood why Callum had had them stop four streets away. He wanted them to be seen. He wanted Dunncraigh to know where they went. Thinking about that, though, only made her more nervous, and she had something she’d much rather contemplate at the moment.

“You’re the one who chose to wear your tartan,” she pointed out, glancing down at his kilt.

“I’m a Highlander, am I nae? Buckskins served me better in Kentucky, but I dunnae want to be seen as an outsider here. Nae if I’m to convince a magistrate of any of this.”

She could hear

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